Korean sex worker Yonhee goes to Japan to build solidarity with her counterparts there. YAMASITA Youngae heads for Kyoto to give a lecture on how former prostitute-turned-comfort women were left out of the movement to achieve justice for comfort women. Korean professor PARK Yu-ha is sued by former comfort women because of her book Comfort Women of the Empire. Reportage writer KAWADA Fumiko Tells the story of BAE Bonki, a Korean who worked as a comfort woman in Okinawa. Shuttling between the issue of sex workers who refuse to be pictured as victims and the issue of comfort women who couldn’t even be acknowledged as victims, the film reveals stories that had disappeared from official memory.
Category: Documentary
Documentary
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The Last Partisan
Journalist, writer, and unionist in Germany during Greece’s darkest period, 92-year-old Vangelis Sakkatos fights for social justice. In Koln he meets the old comrades, in Brussels, he spreads the message to the European Parliament. He still feels young, like when he participated as a child in the anti-nazi resistance. Life is beautiful when it is full of ideals.
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The Partisan With The Leica Camera
The story of Mundek Lukawiecki and his wife Hannah Bern, who fought the Nazis with the Polish partisans and hid in the forests. Mundek not only employed his bravery and cunning, but also his Leica camera, giving a rare glimpse into the life of the partisans.
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How I Became a Partisan
This documentary film reveals how the lives of the descendants of a partisan fighter in the Second World War are still impacted by the events of that period, 75 years after the end of hostilities. In making her case, Lacková provides glimpses into her private surroundings. Over the course of her film, she also points out frightening parallels between the reign of the Nazi terror regime and the resurgence of racist currents throughout today’s Europe.
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The Partisan
The film is based on a previously untold story of Juozas Paliūnas-Rytas, the leader of the so-called ‘Revival District’ and his dramatic battle.
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Prehistory of the Partisans
This film documents student preparations for the final phases of the 1969 protests against the renewal of the security treaty.
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Partisans of Vilna
This extraordinary film tells the story of the men and women who formed the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania, during World War II. Using rare archival film footage dating from 1939 to 1944 and contemporary interviews with 40 partisan survivors (including Abba Kovner, a founder of the partisan movement and one of Israel’s leading poets) the film explores the difficulties of organizing under the anarchic conditions of the ghetto.
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Men Who Won’t Pick Up Guns 2: Breaking a Taboo
Ko Eun-young, a thirty, non-naitive Jeju Island woman with no experience in politics, runs for Jeju governor in the 2018 local elections. The bumpy ride Ko and her colleagues undergo during the election campaign moves and changes them.
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Guns N’ Roses: 2 Classic Albums Under Review: Use Your Illusion I and II
Chronicling the impact of Guns N’ Roses’ simultaneous release of “Use Your Illusion I” and “Use Your Illusion II,” this documentary revisits the media events leading up to the release and the subsequent tour. Never before had the same band held the No. 1 and 2 spots on the Billboard charts. This milestone in rock history is told through backstage footage, interviews from musicians on the albums, and insight from biographers and journalists.
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The Divas of the Taguerabt
Director Karim Moussaoui wonders what would come close to be called Opera in his home country, Algeria. Together with his crew, he travels to the desert where he was told some women sung the Taguerabt (chant of the Gourara) in caves.